Elizabeth Hand Quotes

• But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Running, Horse, Mean

  46 Copy quote

• You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Character, Shells, Ifs

  Elizabeth Hand (2010). “Illyria”, p.52, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

• I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing. I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Jobs, Drama, College

  "Intense Ornate". Amazon.co.uk interview, 1999.

  7 Copy quote

• There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Answers, Woods

  Elizabeth Hand (1997). “Glimmering”

  8 Copy quote

• I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Strong, Character, World

  5 Copy quote

• Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Giving Up, Real, Reading

  On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

  6 Copy quote

• Endless longing; a face you'd known since childhood, since birth almost; a body that moved as though it were your own. These were things you never spoke of, things you never hoped for; things you could never admit to. Things you'd die for, and die of.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Childhood, Body, Faces

  Elizabeth Hand (2010). “Illyria”, p.34, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

• I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Book, Thinking, Suspense Novels

  On "Mortal Love" at HarperCollins, 2004.

  16 Copy quote

• It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Ideas, Creepy, Sound

  Elizabeth Hand (2013). “Generation Loss”, p.11, Hachette UK

  5 Copy quote

• The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Past, Our World, Notion

  Interview with Cheryl Morgan, strangehorizons.com. November 29, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin